Chapter 28: Won't Give You Back, My Handsome Guy!

  "It's her!" Mokuzi Aki looked towards the source of the sound, and although she was lying on the grass, and the streetlights from the riverside path cast a dim light, he still recognized at a glance that girl who made his heart skip a beat - Kwon Yuri! A girl as shiny as glass, with an entrancing chocolate scent that bewildered him. Just one glance, just one sound, was enough to make Mokuzi Aki's body stiffen immediately...

  "Yuri?" Jin Xiaoquan heard the sudden shout from behind, immediately loosening his hands that were holding onto Muzi Qiu's back, and also raised his head, with a hint of surprise and dissatisfaction, turning around to look at Yuri who was walking over.

  Yuri hastily stood up, tidied her hair which was disheveled from the fall, brushed off the grass clippings on her body, and put on a face as if nothing had happened. She walked to Jin Hyo-yeon's side and said, "Choding, weren't you here to have a dance-off with him? Why are you hugging each other?"

  "I'm just tired, I ran out of energy after dancing, so I leaned against it." A faint blush crept up Kim Hyo-yun's cheeks as she nodded and replied in a low voice. Fortunately, the dim lighting prevented Yuri from noticing the pink on Kim Hyo-yun's face. "What are you doing here?"

  "I... came for a walk..." It's so embarrassing to fall in front of a handsome guy, stupid! Yuri smiled slightly and reached out with one hand to pinch Kim Hyo-yeon's buttocks. Her buttocks were suddenly attacked, and Kim Hyo-yeon immediately turned around and slapped Yuri's hand away, her face flushing even redder.

  “……” Muzi Qiu just wanted to say, hello, to this girl who had just said she was going to give up and whom he met again tonight. However, this greeting stuck in his throat. A few strands of hair swept across his eyelashes, causing a slight itch. Muzi Qiu couldn't help but pucker his mouth and blow the hair away.

  "How handsome! This hairstyle, it's stunning!" Yuri didn't recognize Kizuki Aki even when they were standing face to face. It was because the current Kizuki Aki was no longer the same as before! Every time Yuri saw Kizuki Aki, he was wearing a pair of large black-framed glasses that almost covered his entire face. With his hair being a bit long, it made him look like someone you couldn't quite remember what he looked like, but you could recall those glasses clearly. Tonight, Kizuki Aki was wearing high-top canvas shoes, which added about 5 cm to his height. Compared to before, at this age, although not tall, at least he was no longer short. Kizuki Aki's hair had also been styled by "Miki-sister", and although it was just a trim, at first, even Kizuki Aki himself didn't recognize his own reflection, let alone Yuri who wasn't familiar with him!

  "... I'm just a short, country bumpkin in your heart, it's better to be far away from this awkwardness. Muzi Qiu didn't know that Yuri hadn't recognized him, and Yuri's intense stare made him at a loss..."

  Since that's the case, Muzi Qiu didn't want to get deeply involved either. If he couldn't stir up trouble, then he'd hide! Facing this, after Jin Chudin smiled brightly and happily tonight, Muzi Qiu glanced at Yuri who was staring at him, turned his stiff body around, took a deep breath, stepped out, and left the lawn.

  "Hey...... that......" Muzi Qiu suddenly turned around and left, Jin Xiaoyuan wanted to stop him, but found himself still didn't know his name, and Muzi Qiu's figure was already gradually moving away...

  "Hey! Are you leaving? I don't even know your name yet! Will you come back here to practice dancing again?" She hastily shouted out loud towards Muzi Qiu's back.

  "What's the name?" Mu Zi Qiu didn't stop walking, his right hand inserted into his pants pocket, taking a deep breath of the damp air, his left hand slightly raised and shook it, indicating that it wasn't necessary...

  "Awesome! Cool! Especially that guy's bangs, so stylish!" Yuri saw Mokuzu Aki raise his left hand and wave it around, couldn't help but exclaim, suddenly, she thought of a very important question!

  "Who's that? You don't even know his name?"

  "If you don't come, it might be too late tonight..." Kim Hyo-yeon turned around, staring at Yuri with wide eyes, "Gwon Yu-ri, return my handsome guy!"

  "I... I don't know him either!"

  ……

  Leaving the lawn, entering the bustling streets, Muzi Qiu suddenly thought of a sentence from a Chinese game: Since you don't plan to pursue it, why remember it? Since there is no fate, why bother pursuing it? Everything will pass like flowing water, leaving no trace. Tomorrow, no matter what, we are already strangers.

  "I and this girl named Yuri, are just like the lines of this poem!" People coming and going on the street, occasionally brushing shoulders, busy people won't even turn their heads to apologize to each other. Maybe a few happy or sad people laugh or cry loudly on the street, but others just glance at them and hurry away, maybe leaving behind words like "crazy", "idiot", "heartbroken" or "bankrupt". Then they gradually move further away. Just like a small boat that has passed through the surface of a lake, after the ripples have gone, it returns to calmness...

  ……

  The next day

  The empty bus still had only two people, Muzi Qiu and the driver. Although the weather was gradually warming up, on this spring day, drowsiness still hadn't dissipated. The bus driver continued to drive slowly while yawning, and Muzi Qiu sat at the back of the bus, gazing out at the fleeting street scenes. However, something was missing - a pair of large, black-framed glasses had been replaced by long bangs that swept across...

  In the corner of the classroom, a girl was still lying down, but now she wasn't sleeping. Instead, she was propping up a book, basking in the rising sunlight, and radiating a dazzling glow...

  "Are you back? Where did you go yesterday?" Zheng Xiuyan knew that the person who had been gone for two days had appeared, just by the light footsteps, as Mu Ziqiu walked towards the classroom from afar. The book had just closed, but she found that the person standing in front of her was no longer the one she knew. "You? Mu Ziqiu?"

  I am.

  "This... did you get plastic surgery? No, this is your true face! And those glasses?" Zheng Xiuyan couldn't believe it. Two days ago, Mu Ziqiu was called a short and unsophisticated country bumpkin by Yuri, but today he had transformed into a handsome guy! Especially with that diagonal fringe, which made him look even more handsome, it was like he had instantly killed off a large group of girls!

  "I wasn't nearsighted from the start, you didn't get up, I couldn't enter."

  "Oh."

  "Mù zi qiū." Today's Mù zi qiū gave her a great shock.

  "Huh?" Sitting in a position against the wall, Muzi Qiu habitually leaned towards the outside of the wall.

  "This, this one, that one, right, this Friday night, are you free?" Zheng Xiuyan felt her palms sweating while holding the book, and she herself didn't know why she made this invitation.

  "Friday? I'm free in the afternoon, but not at night, is there something up?" Friday was his birthday and also the day he first met Lee Hyori, so he had to stay home with her.

  "It's nothing, just want to go out and have some fun, haven't been out in a long time..."

  "We'll talk about it later..."

  "Look, the ivy at the corner of the wall has grown up, I guess it will slowly climb to the top of the wall." At the corner of the wall, without anyone noticing, in this warm season, a few sprouts of ivy grew quietly, just like the sunrise outside the wall bringing light and warmth, all without being noticed...